"View of the Jubilee Fair in Hyde Park; in foreground to left a small stage erected with a band playing and jesters performing, a small crowd stands in front, a few tents in central foreground with signs such as "Duke of Wellington Whitbreads Intire", and on a lamp "Dancing and Singing Here"; beyond a crowd stands by river bank watching a sham sea fight, many sailing ships on water with smoke billowing from the scene, on the opposite river bank the fair continues."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Text below image: This fair and naumachy or sham sea fight in Hyde Park was in honour of peace. This jubilee on Augt. 1, 1814, was to celebrate the return of peace and the centenary of the reign of the illustrious House of Brunswick and to commemorate the glorious Battle of the Nile., With lettered key (from A to D) etched on either side of text below image: A. The Naumachy, representing the Battle of the Nile. B. The Serpentine River. C. The fair, which lasted upwards of a week. D. The fireworks in Kensignton Gardens let off at eleven at night., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Print glazed; removed from contemporary frame (53 x 62 cm) which is stored separately.
Publisher:
Published Sept. 10, 1814, by J. Pitts, No. 14 Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials
Subject (Geographic):
Hyde Park (London, England), England, and London
Subject (Topic):
Festivals, Buildings, Temporary, Parks, Banners, Crowds, Eating & drinking, Fairs, Fireworks, Fools & jesters, Historical reenactments, Musicians, and Show tents
"Heading to (printed) verses ... A countryman relates his adventures on a visit to London. The scene is a promenade in Hyde Park. The countryman looks askance at a young woman with a parasol on a hinged stick who has just passed, but stares back at him. The fifth of seven verses: I went one day to spy The gentry in Hyde Park, Sirs, A girl push'd rudely by, To whom I did remark, Sirs-- "Though your face be mighty fair, I've seen a bear more civil;" Then so little clothes they wear, Oh! Lunnon is the Devil. Ta, ra [&c.]."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text printed in letterpress in lower portion of sheet., Imprint statement from text in letterpress printed in lower right corner of sheet., Text in letterpress following title: Tune-When I was a pure. The music published by Goulding, Phipps, D'Almaine, and Co. 124, New Bond Street., Four columns of verse in letterpress: When at home with dad, we never had no fun sirs ..., and Plate numbered '506' in upper left corner.
Publisher:
Published February 14, 1809, by Laurie and Whittle, 53 Fleet Street London
Subject (Geographic):
Hyde Park (London, England),, England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Parks, Walkways, Umbrellas, Dogs, and Military uniforms
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Three lines of text after title: These machines were invented by Baron Von Drais ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hobbies -- Velocipedes., Watermark: Basted Mill., and Manuscript "73" in upper center of plate.
Image above 6 stanzas of explanatory poetry engraved in double columns. A balding lady on horseback in Hyde Park's Rotten Row loses her tête or head-dress to a gust of wind, as her horse bolts toward the right. Two other horsemen as well as a gardener and other passers-by debate the identity of the fallen wig which is decorated with ostrich plumes in the fashion of the period
Alternative Title:
Fate of the tête
Description:
Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 21 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, 16th April 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Piccadilly
Title from text above images., Date based on date of Queen Victoria's coronation: 28 June 1838., Several small designs., and Temporary local subject terms: Hyde Park -- Amusements -- Tricks -- Ladders -- Families.
Title from text above images., Date based on date of Queen Victoria's coronation: 28 June 1838., Numerous small designs., "Proof" written in crayon above title., and Added in pencil along bottom edge of sheet: Doings in Hyde Park on the occasion of coronation Queen Victoria.
Title from text above images., Date based on date of Queen Victoria's coronation: 28 June 1838., Numerous small designs., and Text in lower left corner of sheet: Proof.
Title from text above images., Date based on date of Queen Victoria's coronation: 28 June 1838., Several small designs., and Text below image in lower left: Proof.